Illinois · Nonprofit
BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE
BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,760,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,560,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Champaign Countylocal
- Depaul Universityportfolio match
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $810k → $750k.
From the IRS filings of BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Champaign CountylocalIL · funds 79 organizations near you
- Depaul Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Ventures Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountantsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Collegiate Athletic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carnegie Mellon Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hansen-Furnas Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association for Computing Machinery Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barbara and Jonathan Moss Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Feed Education and Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 19 related entities
- University of Minnesota · exempt
- University of Chicago · exempt
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign · exempt
- Indiana University · exempt
- University of Iowa · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE?
- BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,760,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,560,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,760,000 in grants to BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG TEN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing